Current Events > When you first found out about the Electoral College, what did you think of it?

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I remember as a kid being confused as to why we used some weird roundabout way of determining elections instead of just going by who got the most votes.

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"i guess that's a way to make the teams take turns"

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Probably whatever my third grade teacher told me to think.
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Antifar posted...

Probably whatever my third grade teacher told me to think.

Pretty much this

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that it was bullshit and I still think that

I feel like it was presented to me to be used to prevent corruption.

But that's clearly a lie.

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Antifar posted...

Probably whatever my third grade teacher told me to think.

This.
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As a kid it seemed like a good idea as the parties were mostly rational, but the right has gone nuts since then.

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I remember the class asking why they don't just accept the popular vote and the teacher not being able to give an answer that wasn't based on the logistics of the 1700s.

Several years later in my high school government class the teacher was more honest and said it was because the Republicans disproportionately benefited from it and thus it was never going away.

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It was taught to me as being a good thing because it prevents places like California from deciding all of our elections or something.

But clearly, using that logic, its now flipped to the swing states deciding the elections instead. So I dont see the point in it.

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AdrianBeterson posted...

It was taught to me as being a good thing because it prevents places like California from deciding all of our elections or something.

But clearly, using that logic, its now flipped to the swing states deciding the elections instead. So I dont see the point in it.

well there's a swing involved, which there wouldn't be if "places like california" decided all of our elections

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growing up with a conservative family i was always told it was brilliant and the forefathers were genius in implementing it. mob rule bad basically. didnt take me long as an adult to unwind that.

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The Trent posted...

well there's a swing involved, which there wouldn't be if "places like california" decided all of our elections

Point being, its still a handful of states who decide the elections.

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"This is stupid"

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that it makes some votes worth more than others and that seems really ass backwards.
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It gave Abraham Lincoln a win so it was a good thing

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Thought it was dumb then and think its dumb now.

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It was always presented more as vestige that typically didn't affect things today. It had been 100 years give or take since the last time it had happened when I learned about it.

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It disenfranchised me to the whole voting thing very early on and that still hasn't really changed. Still, I did vote this year.

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i picture it as 2 boxers in a match
the liberals have standard issue boxing gloves
the republicans are given brass knuckles

sure its still possible for the liberals to win. but its much harder for them even though they are the more popular party
basically america wants democrats in power as seen by the popular vote but the electoral college gives the minority rule

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I asked my teacher to explain why this existed, and the explanation as to why this was implemented was more confusing than anything Biden or Trump attempted to utter during any of the debates.

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Pus_N_Pecans posted...

It disenfranchised me to the whole voting thing very early on and that still hasn't really changed. Still, I did vote this year.

This, verbatim tbh.

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Guess I won't ever bother wasting my time voting then!

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